When a group of Waterford students left for a skiing trip on Saturday, February 15, they were headed for a country on the verge of a viral epidemic. The Covid-19 coronavirus had just reached Italy. The World Health Organisation recorded three new cases on the same day that 40 pupils and four teachers from St...
Model Rosanna Davison has been "overwhelmed" by the response to her emotional interview on last Friday's The Late Late Show where she opened up about her miscarriages and surrogacy journey.
Anyone passing through this country town on a Thursday afternoon or Friday morning might find their curiosity piqued by the sight of a motley crew loitering by a white van, two or three of them disappearing intermittently through its back doors. Given the bizarre ways of the world, they might wonder if they are witnessing...
The Government's response to the novel coronavirus, now known as Covid-19, is an object lesson in why people no longer trust authority. Simon Harris's appearance on Sean O'Rourke on Friday, in the wake of confirmation of the first case of the virus on the island, was just another depressing exercise in evasion, centred on a...
Panic abounds, and nonsense. And it isn't confined to politicians - have you had a look at the horror-fest that is social media over the past few days?
The US has signed a peace agreement with Taliban militants aimed at bringing an end to 18 years of bloodshed in Afghanistan and allowing troops to return home from America's longest war.
While it was funny in its own grisly way to see the Trumper telling lies about the coronavirus, talking it down and talking up the prospects of a vaccine, it has to be said that on this one, he is up against it.
